Covart v. Haskins’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. ““There is a plain difference in meaning between ‘default’ and ‘absence’; ‘default’ signifying that there has not been an appearance at any stage of the action by the party in default, while ‘absence’ means that the party was not present at a particular time, naming it. ‘Default,’ as used in our statutes, is the antithesis of ‘appearance,-’ while ‘absence’ is the opposite of ‘appearance at a specified time.’ We hold that ‘absence,’ as used in § 114, means a failure of the parties to appear at the trial upon which a judgment is rendered.” (Covart v. Haskins, 39 Kan. 571, 574 , 18 Pac. 522 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hamilton v. Bernstein